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14.5.5.7 SysLogHandler</a>
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The <tt class="class">SysLogHandler</tt> class, located in the
<tt class="module">logging.handlers</tt> module, supports sending logging messages to
a remote or local <span class="Unix">Unix</span> syslog.

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  <td><nobr><b><span class="typelabel">class</span>&nbsp;<tt id='l2h-2931' xml:id='l2h-2931' class="class">SysLogHandler</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var><big>[</big><var>address</var><big>[</big><var>, facility</var><big>]</big><var></var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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Returns a new instance of the <tt class="class">SysLogHandler</tt> class intended to
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<var>address</var> in the form of a <code>(<var>host</var>, <var>port</var>)</code>
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used.  The address is used to open a UDP socket.  If <var>facility</var> is
not specified, <tt class="constant">LOG_USER</tt> is used.
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Closes the socket to the remote host.
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The record is formatted, and then sent to the syslog server. If
exception information is present, it is <em>not</em> sent to the server.
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Encodes the facility and priority into an integer. You can pass in strings
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